bete
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bete
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bete
Basque edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Basque *bete.
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bete ? (imperfect participle betetzen, future participle beteko, short form bete, verbal noun betetze)
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bete
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German edit
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bete
- inflection of beten:
Italian edit
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bete f
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Latin edit
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bēte
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Old Dutch *biti, from Proto-Germanic *bitiz.
Noun edit
bēte f
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This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “bete (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “bete (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Despite the gap in attestation, apparently inherited from Old English bēte, from Proto-West Germanic *bētā, from Latin bēta, of unknown origin.
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Noun edit
bete (plural betes)
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References edit
- “bẹ̄te, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
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bete
- Alternative form of beten (“to beat”)
Etymology 3 edit
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bete
- Alternative form of beten (“to fix”)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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bete m
- beetroot (Beta vulgaris)
- bit; a portion of something.
- crossbeam, particularly in a cross frame timber structure.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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bete m
- beetroot (Beta vulgaris)
- bit; a portion of something
- crossbeam, particularly in a cross frame timber structure
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bete
- third-person plural present subjunctive relative of is
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bete
- inflection of betar:
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bete f pl or n pl
Swedish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse beita (“food, bait”).
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bete n
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Declension of bete | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bete | betet | beten | betena |
Genitive | betes | betets | betens | betenas |
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See also edit
- agn (“bait for fishing”)
Etymology 2 edit
Related to bita (“to bite”). Also see Icelandic biti.
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Noun edit
bete c
Declension edit
Declension of bete | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bete | beten | betar | betarna |
Genitive | betes | betens | betars | betarnas |
Derived terms edit
- (tusk): elefantbete
Etymology 3 edit
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Verb edit
bete (present beter, preterite betedde, supine betett, imperative bete)
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Conjugation of bete (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | bete | — | ||
Supine | betett | — | ||
Imperative | bete | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | beten | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | beter | betedde | — | — |
Ind. plural1 | bete | betedde | — | — |
Subjunctive2 | bete | betedde | — | — |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | beteende | |||
Past participle | — | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
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Ternate edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bete (Jawi بيتي)
References edit
- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh